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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1898
Page
2
College notes describe initiations and officer elections for the Adelphia and Zeta Sigma societies. Professors and visiting speakers discussed teaching violin and stringed instruments at Alma College. Students attend lectures, receptions, and chapel events amid campus social tensions and reorganizations.
Ours list many visitors and shoppers in Alma and Ithaca from Monday to last week. People include Morey L and Kelen in Ithaca, F B Pollashy, C F Brown in Lansing, N D Avie in Saginaw, A Ely at home, J Gladding of Durand, and Mrs Rosa Messingar with Pollusky family. Ordinary items note sales at Hoyt's and Bettyjohn's, a ten day sale at FE Pothsky's, and upcoming Parmer Institute in January. Also reported are football results, a Mrs Beahl funeral, and CH Mus Quer Wand furlough news, plus local society notes and business visits.
Wordy notice lists upcoming church society events with preaching and prayer services at several locations. It mentions election of officers, feast days, and regular Sunday morning services. Names of organizers, meeting times, and ticketing details appear, though many phrases are garbled. The item reads like a local church calendar and includes schedules through July with rates for travel and holiday observances.
Fred Delavan was a visitor this week. Reo Whitheckie is on the sick list. Mr. Spinney visited the second grade. Miss Grace Paddack visited Miss Gant. Monnay Katie Thompson visited the high school. The second year German class is reciting another poem. Dorothy Swift entered the third grade. enrollment is now 184. Six small boys broke through the ice on the river this week with no reported injuries. Avni Lancashire returned to school after a four day absence for throat trouble. Miss Doclap’s room prepares for Olio, a two and four program. The Board of Education acknowledges a donation from Mr. Geo. D. May to the Public School Library. volumes by Scott, Dickens, Thackeray, and others are thanked.
Leading features include live stock prices at Detroit area markets with prices for cows calves steers and hogs. The report notes weather impacted attendance at a college chapel program featuring Miss Nordrum and musicians, plus ads for Dr J H W Melearis Volcanic Liniment and Downs Elixir promising cough and cold relief with purchaser guarantees.
An Alma Michigan firm Bivins and Rhones offers refunds on a 50 cent bottle if it fails to cure couch or cold and a 25 cent bottle with a similar guarantee. The notice mentions Riverdale Michigan and asserts nationwide satisfaction terms.
Ask your grocer to send a can of Bancroft House M. and J. Coffee. It is praised as surpassing excellence and the purest due to careful cleaning and roasting. Freshness is ensured by roasting in an updated facility, in airtight cans rather than bulk. Ponnens 40c, two pound cans 7c at all grocers.
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